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Strategies for Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten: Toolkit for Districts, Schools, and Early Childhood Providers: Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz
Improving Access to Early Care and Education: An Equity-Focused Policy Research Agenda: Jessica F. Harding and Diane Paulsell
Seeding Entrepreneurship Across Campus: Early Implementation Experiences of the Kauffman Campuses Initiative: Lara Hulsey, Linda Rosenberg and Benita Kim
The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project: How Early Head Start Programs Are Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers: Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Patti Banghart and RenÃ©e Nogales
Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center Creating a Data Model to Analyze TANF Caseloads: Emily Wiegand, Robert Goerge and Leah Gjertson
Emerging Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations: The Role of Managed Care: Marsha Gold, Jessica Nysenbaum and Sonya Streeter
Child Participation in Supplemental Security Income: Cross- and Within-State Determinants of Caseload Growth: Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak
SCAN Policies Database Fact Sheet: Elizabeth Weigensberg and Nuzhat Islam
HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 7 Transcript: Urban Institute): Demetra Nightingale, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab
The Benefits and Costs of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program Under the 2002 Amendments: Sarah Dolfin and Peter Z. Schochet
A Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool: Lee-Lee Ellis, Rachel Kogan and Laura Hanson
Benefits and Challenges of Expanding Grid Electricity in Africa: A Review of Rigorous Evidence on Household Impacts in Developing Countries: Kristine Bos, Duncan Chaplin and Arif Mamun
Program Snapshot: Bridges from School to Work: Jody Schimmel Hyde and Katie Bodenlos
Pre-Design Study for the Evaluation of Recovery Act Green Jobs, Health Care, and Other High Growth Competitive Grants: Karen Needels and Annalisa Mastri
Strategic Engagement of Policymakers Is Key to Advancing a Children's Health Care Coverage Policy Agenda: Debra Draper, Laurie Felland, Ian Hill and Sara Hogan
Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2014: Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham
Consumer and Provider Perspectives on Shared Decision Making: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed Literature: Nyna Williams and Chris Fleming
W2 Converting to Wisconsin Works: Where Did Families Go When AFDC Ended in Milwaukee?: Rebecca Swartz, Jacqueline Kauff, Lucia Nixon, Tom Fraker, Jay Hein and Susan Mitchell
Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities: Bonnie O'Day, Crystal Blyler, Benjamin Fischer, Claire Gill, Todd Honeycutt, Rebecca Kleinman, Joseph Mastrianni, Eric Morris, Lisa Schottenfeld, Allison Thompkins, Allison Wishon-Siegwarth and Michelle Bailey
Analyzing the Association between Student Weight Status and School Meal Participation: Evidence from the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study: Sarah Bardin and Alice Ann Gola
Rigorous Evaluation of Roads to Success: Design Report: Duncan Chaplin, Martha Bleeker and Claire Smither
The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Implementation and Short-Term Impacts: Myles Maxfield, Allen Schirm and Núria Rodriguez-Planas
Study of Rhode Island's Uninsured: Current Costs and Future Opportunities: Deborah Chollet, Jeffrey Ballou, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell
Quality Reporting on Medicare's Compare Sites: Lessons Learned from Consumer Research, 2001-2014: Margaret Gerteis, Cicely Thomas, Lauren Blatt, Sally Crelia, Alyson Marano Ward, Kelly Moriarty, Monica Sarmiento, Myra Tanamor and Russ Tisinger
Analysis of Children's Health Insurance Patterns: Findings from the SIPP: John L. Czajka
Wash For Life: Stage 2 Grantee Profiles: Clair Null, Jeremy Paley, Jamie McCasland, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson and Christina Phelps
A Study of Federal Spending on Diabetes: An Opportunity for Federal Leadership in Diabetes: Marsha Gold and Ronette Briefel
Beginning Head Start: Children, Families and Programs in Fall 2006: Louisa Tarullo, Jerry West, Nikki Aikens and Lara Hulsey
Charter Schools and the Public Interest: Philip Gleason and Helen Ladd
Proposed Methods for Developing and Testing Risk- and Reliability-Adjustment Models for HCBS Composite Measures: Alex Bohl, Mariel Finucane, Jessica Ross, Sheng Wang and Dejene Ayele
Focusing on the Boys: The Longer-Term Impacts of Wise Guys in Davenport, Iowa: Reginald D. Covington, Robert G. Wood and Brian Goesling
Options for Building Coaching Practices into TANF Programs: A Comparison of Five Models: Michelle Derr and Kristen Joyce
Maternal and Child Characteristics Associated with Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices: Kristy Hendricks, Ronette Briefel, Timothy Novak and Paula Ziegler
Evaluation of the Business Case for Quality, Phase II: Kristin Andrews, Dominick Esposito, Erin Fries Taylor, Keith Kranker, Lei Rao, Sandra Greene, Kristin Reiter, Charlotte Williams and Stephanie Pierson
Supporting Parents with Child Care During Training: Nickie Fung, Jessica Harding, Elizabeth Brown, Kara Conroy, Jeanette Holdbrook, Grace Roemer and Max Rankin
Monitoring Local Safety-Net Providers: Do They Have Adequate Capacity?: Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Megan McHugh. Embry Howell
AB Demonstration: Recruitment, Process, and Impact Findings After One Year: David Wittenburg
A Life Lesson in Civics: How Democracy Prep Charter Schools Boost Student Voting: Brian P. Gill, Charles Tilley, Emilyn Whitesell, Mariel Finucane, Liz Potamites and Sean Corcoran
Medicaid Analytic Extract Provider Characteristics (MAXPC) Evaluation Report, 2010: Deo Bencio
AAPOR Report on Big Data: Task Force Members Include: Lilli Japec, Frauke Kreuter, Marcus Berg, Paul Biemer, Paul Decker, Cliff Lampe, Julia Lane, Cathy O'Neil and Abe Usher
Effective Employment Services for Persons with Mental Retardation: Paul T. Decker and Craig Thornton
The Impact of the Children's Health Initiative (CHI) of Santa Clara County on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Enrollment: Christopher A. Trenholm, Sean Orzol and Crandall Peeler
Case Study of North Carolina: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice: Christopher Trenholm, Embry Howell and Brigette Courtot
Primary Care Practice Transformation Introduces Different Staff Roles: Kaylyn E. Swankoski, Deborah N. Peikes, Maya Palakal, Nancy Duda and Timothy J. Day
Early Education Experiences: Regional Differences in Kindergartners' Early Education Experiences: Emily Rosenthal, Amy Rathbun and Jerry West
Comprehensive Reform for 21st Century Success: New Directions for Community Colleges: Nan L. Maxwell Ann E. Person and Editors
Selecting and Testing Measures of Self-Regulation Skills Among Low-Income Populations: Tim Kautz and Quinn Moore
Best Practices in Ensuring Data Quality in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS): Sarah Friese, Kathryn Tout and Gretchen Kirby
Background Paper for Assessing the Evaluability of the HHS Strategic Plan to End Chronic Homelessness: Valerie Cheh and Rachel Shapiro
A Research Agenda for Home-Based Child Care: Patricia Del Grosso, Juliet Bromer, Toni Porter, Christopher Jones, Ann Li, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Nikki Aikens
Usage of Policies and Practices Promoted by Race to the Top: Lisa Dragoset, Susanne James-Burdumy, Kristin Hallgren, Irma Perez-Johnson, Mariesa Herrmann, Christina Tuttle, Megan Hague Angus, Rebecca Herman, Matthew Murray, Corutney Tanenbaum and Cheryl Graczewski
SCHIP in Ohio: Evolution and Outlook for the Future: Carol Irvin, Nancy Fasciano and Margo Rosenbach
Use of Conceptual Scoring to Increase Reliability and Validity of Direct Child Assessments with Linguistically Diverse Preschoolers: Sally Atkins-Burnett and Nikki Aikens
Underusers of Mammogram Screening: Stage of Adoption in Five U.S. Subpopulations: Anne M. Stoddard, Barbara K. Rimer, Dorothy Lane, Sarah A. Fox, Issac Lipkus, Roger Luckmann, Jill Spitz Avrunin, Susan Sprachman, Mary Costanza and Nicole Urban
Using Payment Incentives to Improve Care for the Chronically Ill in Medicare: First Year Implementation of the Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration (MCMP): Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Christopher Fleming, Brenda Natzke and Rachel Shapiro
The Multiple Comparisons Problem in IES Impact Evaluations: Guidelines and Applications: Peter Z. Schochet and John Deke
Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 30-Month Impact Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs, Technical Supplement: Dana Rotz, Paul Burkander, Mary Grider, Kenneth Fortson, Linda Molinari, Elias Sanchez-Eppler and Lindsay Cattell
How Retailers Responded to Taxes on Sweetened Beverages: A Tale of Two Cities: Jeanette Holdbrook, Dana Petersen, David Jones and David Frisvold
Improving the School Attendance of New Jersey's Youngest Learners: Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades: How to Choose and Implement Proven Strategies to Improve Attendance: Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz
Overview of the Independent Evaluation of CPC+: Various Authors
Changes in Financial Aid and Student Enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities After the Tightening of PLUS Credit Standards: Matthew Johnson, Julie Bruch and Brian Gill
Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Executive Summary): Hanley Chiang, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Kristin Hallgren, Paul Burkander and Alison Wellington
Money Follows the Person 2013 Annual Evaluation Report Executive Summary: Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Wilfredo Lim, Rebecca SweetlLester and Victoria Peebles
The State of Teacher Induction in Urban America: Martha Bleeker, Sarah Dolfin, Amy Johnson, Steven Glazerman, Eric Isenberg and Mary Grider
Elementary Math Programs in the Pittsburgh Public Schools: A Comparison of Everyday Math and Harcourt Math: Brian Gill, Catherine Nelson, Julia Kaufman and Kevin Booker
Workforce Development for Comparative Effectiveness Research: Training Programs Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Kristin L. Geonnotti, Eugene C. Rich and Dominick Esposito
Measurement of Childhood Serious Emotional Disturbance: State of the Science and Issues for Consideration: Heather Ringeisen, Leyla Stambaugh, Cecilia Casanueva, Beth Stroul, Jerry West, Jonaki Bose, Sarra Hedden, Gary Blau, Shelli Avenevoli, Lisa Colpe, Kathleen Merikangas, Glorisa Canino, Alice Carter, William E. Copeland, Prudence W. Fisher, Joan Kaufman and William Narrow
Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS), October 1, 1997 Questionnaire: Mathematica Policy Research
How Individual and Environmental Factors Affect Employment Outcomes: Purvi Sevak and David C. Stapleton John Oâ€™Neill
The Final Evaluation Report on the National Home Health Prospective Payment Demonstration: Agencies Reduce Visits While Preserving Quality: Valerie Cheh
Leading the Change: A Comparison of the Principal Supervisor Role in Principal Supervisor Initiative Districts and Other Urban Districts: Ellen B. Goldring, Laura K. Rogers and Melissa A. Clark
The Role of Goal Setting in Integrated Service Delivery: Mary Anne Anderson, Lindsay Ochoa, Margaret Sullivan and Nan Maxwell
What is Moral Sanctity? Sanctity in the Moral Worldviews of U.S. Political Liberals: Allison DiBianca Fasoli, Alexandra Saunders and Irene Andrade
Income Security for Workers: A Stressed Support System in Need of Innovation: David C. Stapleton, Richard Burkhauser, Peiyun She, Robert R. Weathers and Gina A. Livermore
The Atlanta Public Schools Turnaround Strategy After One Year: High Impact Tutoring and the Purpose Built Schools Partnership: Kristin Hallgren, Naihobe Gonzalez, Jane Choi, Kevin Kelly, Annie Li, Lindsay Ochoa, Breanna Wakar and Brian Gill
Effects of Water Quality, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutritional Interventions on Child Development in Rural Kenya (WASH Benefits Kenya): A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial: Christine P. Stewart, Patricia Kariger, Lia Fernald, Amy J. Pickering, Charles D. Arnold, Benjamin F. Arnold, Alan E. Hubbard, Holly N. Dentz, Audrie Lin, Theodora J. Meerkerk, Erin Milner, Jenna Swarthout, John M. Colford, Jr. and Clair Null
National Survey of SSI Children and Families Data Collection and Survey Content: Susan Mitchell
Descriptive Data on Region XI Head Start Children and Families: AIAN FACES Spring 2020 Data Tables and Study Design: Myley Dang, Sara Bernstein, Elizabeth Doran, Ann Li, Ashley Kopack Klein, Natalie Reid, Myah Scott, Sharika Rakibullah, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Nikki Aikens, Louisa Tarullo and Lizabeth Malone
The Business Case for Pediatric Asthma Quality Improvement in Low-Income Populations: Examining a Provider-Based Pay-for-Reporting Intervention: Kristin L. Reiter, Kristin Andrews Lemos, Charlotte E. Williams, Dominick Esposito and Sandra B. Greene
Prevalence of Unclaimed Prescriptions at Military Pharmacies: Dominick Esposito, Eric Schone, Thomas Williams, Su Liu, Karen CyBulski, Rita Stapulonis and Nancy Clusen
Resurrecting Free Play in Young Children: Looking Beyond Fitness and Fatness to Attention, Affiliation, and Affect: Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker
Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends: Trends in Health Expenditures: Deborah Chollet
Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: POD BOND Comparison Report: Michael Levere, David Mann and David Wittenburg
Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Jane G. Fortson
2012 Regional Partnership Grants to Increase the Well-Being of and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for Children Affected by Substance Abuse: Second Annual Report to Congress: Debra A. Strong, Sarah A. Avellar, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Megan Hague-Angus and Caroline Massad Francis
Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program State Implementation Progress, School Year 2014-2015 (Summary): Quinn Moore, Kevin Conway, Brandon Kyler and Andrew Gothro
Moving High-Performing Teachers: Implementation of Transfer Incentives in Seven Districts: Steven Glazerman, Ali Protik, Bing-ru Teh, Julie Bruch and Neil Seftor
Financial Challenges in New Integrated Care Programs: Deconstructing Rate-Setting Issues in Search of Solutions: James Verdier
The Early Experience of the Health Quality Partners Case Management Program: Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore
Promising Results from the Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network Analysis: Debbie Peikes, Greg Peterson and Randall Brown
The Right Help for the Right Workers at the Right Time Can Keep Them on the Job: Steve Bruns
Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2013 (Summary): Kelsey Farson Gray
Final Evaluation of Increasing Economic and Social Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Vulnerable Women (EMPOWER) in Zambia: Ale Aponte, Evan Fantozzi, Amanda Beatty, Gelson Tembo, Chisangu Matome, Nathan Tembo and Evan Borkum
Do Laws Requiring Parental Involvement to Obtain an Abortion Help Reduce STIs Among Minors?: Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce and Thomas Dee
HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 2 Video: USDA, FAS): Eleanor Morefield, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab
Adapting Evaluations of Alternative Payment Models to a Changing Environment: Thomas W. Grannemann and Randall S. Brown
Monthly Estimates of the Antipoverty Effectiveness of Selected Cash and In-Kind Programs: Susan Holland and Pat Doyle
How Do Parents Evaluate and Select Schools? Evidence From a Survey Experiment: Shira Haderlein
Work-Related Overpayments Among Disability Beneficiaries: Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore
Mejores Inicios El Estado del Aprendizaje Temprano y Preparacin para el Kindergarten en East Yakima: Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Nikki Aikens, Martha Kovac and Patricia Del Grosso

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